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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Debra

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#4,478

down −885 places

2025 births

31

down −12 births

All-time births

550,695

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1955
50,563 births
Best rank
#2
in 1956
First recorded
1914
#3,747 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1959
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
111 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195550,563#4Peak
  2. 195648,324#2
  3. 195445,896#6
  4. 195742,728#4
  5. 195336,856#7

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2 in 1956 · peak births 50,563 in 1955

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

1,146 boys · 550,695 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Debra has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.